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How Much Copyright Infringement Can You Cram Into a Single Tweet?

Liz Gannes in Social on December 30, 2010 at 11:09 am PT

If you run a user-generated content site, takedown notices from copyright holders are a fact of life. That even goes for Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters of text. The site received on the order of 300 takedown notices in the last month.

Microsoft Barred From Selling Word, but Not From Making Great Fake Web Videos

Peter Kafka in Media on August 12, 2009 at 4:21 am PT

If a ruling from a judge in eastern Texas sticks, Microsoft will have to give up selling its Word franchise in 60 days. But that’s a very big if. In other news: Look at this cool ad for Microsoft Germany!

Warner Music: That “Music Tax for Colleges” Proposal Isn’t Ours (Sort Of). But It Should Be

Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2008 at 10:14 am PT

Music industry critics rightly castigate the music business for trying too hard, for too long, to hang on to the doomed CD business. Then they howl when music companies try to make money by selling music in other formats. But strip away incendiary terms like “music tax,” and the trial balloon that Warner Music Group is floating makes sense.

Kara Visits "The Future of the Internet" Book Party!

Kara Swisher in News on May 12, 2008 at 10:00 am PT

This past Saturday night, BoomTown attended the tony San Francisco book party for Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, “The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It.” It was hosted by megablogger Arianna Huffington and Melanie Ellison, an old friend of Zittrain’s from high school, as it turned out. And BoomTown took our Flip video camera, of course!